Wed.Oct 13, 2021

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How to Solicit Employee Ideas Using the IdeaScale Platform

IdeaScale

Overview: IdeaScale’s platform serves as the foundation for employee engagement around innovation, allowing you to build on it in any way that works best for you. Actively soliciting ideas, surfacing new ones, discussing the process, making it easy to find ideas, and offering ways to organize ideas in the front and back end will all help bring more creativity to the fore.

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Drive Quality Improvement with Standard Work Software

Kainexus

In today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment, organizations must find innovative ways to improve quality, reduce waste, and get products to market quickly and efficiently. To do so, many organizations of all types are turning to the tools and techniques that manufacturing companies have used for decades to achieve operational excellence.

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Digital Customer Service: ChatBots are to Quantity what Humans are to Quality

Daniel Burrus

In a way, customer service and the principles behind it are timeless. A business builds a product or offers a service, consumers have questions, complaints, or creative suggestions for how said product can be improved upon, and the business receives those responses. The way a customer has the ability to reach out to a business is a Soft Trend – open to influence by exponential digital technology; but the existence of the customer response is a Hard Trend – a future certainty that will always hap

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Why Idea Management Isn't Actually About the Ideas

Viima

Given that we're in the business of idea management software , people are often surprised to hear us say that ideas themselves aren't really worth that much. Sure, every improvement and innovation always starts from an idea, but there are always countless people that have had the same idea, in many cases years or even decades earlier. It's actually the execution that makes the difference.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Reading or Watching with your own Filter on

Rmukesh Gupta

I read this interesting post by Robert Twigger in which he talks about how he is trying to watch the NEWS with his own filter – a filter for creativity. He also shares a bit about the results. You can read his post here. This is interesting in many different ways. What he has done is make that which is hidden, obvious. Each one of us looks at the information that comes to us with a filter on.

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Overton Window: How extreme ideas become mainstream

Idea to Value

Sometimes, new ideas may come across as scary and radical. Especially when compared to what has come before, or what is considered “normal” or standard in an industry. While it is common for innovations to take time to diffuse through the different customer groups , it can sometimes be hard for ideas to be accepted when there are extreme views on opposite ends of the spectrum of issues.